{"id":346721,"date":"2026-06-04T17:09:17","date_gmt":"2026-06-04T17:09:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/346721\/"},"modified":"2026-06-04T17:09:17","modified_gmt":"2026-06-04T17:09:17","slug":"rodent-issues-force-2-san-jose-targets-to-close-grocery-departments-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/346721\/","title":{"rendered":"Rodent issues force 2 San Jose Targets to close grocery departments"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a data-ylk=\"elm:icon;slk:Fox local;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.aol.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><img alt=\"Fox local\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"fill\" class=\"pr-2.5 max-w-[150px] max-h-[40px] min-[601px]:max-w-[115px]\" style=\"position:absolute;height:100%;width:100%;left:0;top:0;right:0;bottom:0;color:transparent\" src=\"https:\/\/s.yimg.com\/lo\/mysterio\/api\/232C1E841BC0BB863E0E9B74B574D5BADEBDCEDD7912DF6C56EBCD799BAD61E9\/subgraphmysterio\/resizefill_w0_h40;quality_80;format_webp\/\"\/><\/a>Wed, June 3, 2026 at 6:57 PM UTC<img alt=\"\" fetchpriority=\"high\" width=\"976\" height=\"549\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"standard-img w-full w-full h-auto\" style=\"color:transparent\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/https:\/\/media.zenfs.com\/en\/aol_fox_aggregated_articles_807\/ca5646537f33a1e0a8f1fbf2717f608c.jpeg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>The Brief<\/p>\n<p>The Santa Clara County Department of Environmental Health shut down the grocery department at two San Jose Targe stores.<\/p>\n<p>Inspectors found traces of rodents at both locations.<\/p>\n<p>One store addressed its rodent problems and was allowed to reopen its grocery department, while the other had yet to be reinspected.<\/p>\n<p>SAN JOSE, Calif. &#8211; Two Targets in San Jose were ordered to temporarily close their grocery departments after health inspectors found traces of vermin at the stores.<\/p>\n<p>What we know<\/p>\n<p>The Santa Clara County Department of Environmental Health on Thursday <a data-ylk=\"slk:shut down the grocery department;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;\" href=\"https:\/\/stgencep.sccgov.org\/sccdineout\/INSPECTIONREPORT_DAY2GNZCB.pdf\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">shut down the grocery department<\/a> at the Target located at 879 Blossom Hill Road after a health inspector reported finding rodent droppings in the dairy walk-in room along the wall and on store shelves.<\/p>\n<p>A <a data-ylk=\"slk:follow-up inspection the next day;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;\" href=\"https:\/\/stgencep.sccgov.org\/sccdineout\/INSPECTIONREPORT_DA9FBZUHN.pdf\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">follow-up inspection the next day<\/a> found that the store had rectified and cleaned most of the issues initially detected, though the inspector found more droppings in an upstairs storage area.<\/p>\n<p>The health department allowed the grocery department to reopen last Friday, according to the inspector&#8217;s report. However, the Target is scheduled to be inspected once again this coming Friday in order to confirm &#8220;continued major violation corrections.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Also on Friday afternoon, <a data-ylk=\"slk:an inspection at another Target;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;\" href=\"https:\/\/stgencep.sccgov.org\/sccdineout\/INSPECTIONREPORT_DAKVG8RFH.pdf\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">an inspection at another Target<\/a> on 450 N. Capitol Ave. found more evidence of rodent droppings and of packages that appeared to be chewed through, according to the health department.<\/p>\n<p>The grocery department of that Target store was also ordered to be closed, and as of Monday morning, no follow-up inspection was reported to have taken place.<\/p>\n<p>The other side<\/p>\n<p>KTVU reached out to Target for comment on the reported health violations, but did not hear back prior to publication.<\/p>\n<p>The Source<\/p>\n<p>Santa Clara County Department of Environmental Health<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Wed, June 3, 2026 at 6:57 PM UTC The Brief The Santa Clara County Department of Environmental Health&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":346722,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[31797,142186,142187,142188,17884,35436,88,90,89,2838],"class_list":["post-346721","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-jose","tag-environmental-health","tag-grocery-department","tag-grocery-departments","tag-health-inspector","tag-health-inspectors","tag-rodent-droppings","tag-san-jose","tag-san-jose-headlines","tag-san-jose-news","tag-target"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/346721","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=346721"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/346721\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/346722"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=346721"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=346721"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=346721"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}